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n. - Yeast risen doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday.

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  • Henry Wasserman diffidently intimated that there was a curious but satisfactory element of safety in being last -- a "fastnacht" in their language, in fact.
  • Billy Joel song, never eaten a Yocco's hotdog and have no idea what a fastnacht is.
  • Everybody else gits there first, and it's nossing for the fastnacht but weeping and wailing and gnashing of the teeth.
  • Since these regulations affected mainly the clergy, we find the name carnis privium sacerdotum and in Germany herren fastnacht.
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